Pierre Bal-Blanc - The Continuum Was Performed in the Following Manner

Nero, ISBN 9788880561668,
Pb, 180 pgs, 14 x 22cm
Acqn. 32653
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£21.00
An in-depth ex-post reflection on Documenta 14 by one of its curators, Pierre Bal Blanc, with the contribution of Adam Szymczyk. It's 2013 and Adam Szymczyk, one of the most radical curators on the international scene, was called to direct the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world. Szymczyk and his team moved the exhibition outside the borders of Kassel, in Athens, mostly because of its clearly antagonistic relationship with German (and Western European - U.S. American) neoliberal politics. Their curatorial approach takes the exhibition to a breaking point never seen before, especially in relation to institutions and politics. With this book, published five years after the exhibition, Pierre Bal-Blanc finally rereads, in a complete and lucid way, that historical passage in the light of its "scandal," and he does so from a privileged position, namely that of one of the curators who accompanied Adam Szymczyk's artistic direction, together with curators Hendrik Folkerts, Candice Hopkins, Hila Peleg, Dieter Roelstraete, Bonaventure Ndikung, Monika Szewczyk, advisors Marina Fokidis, Natasha Ginwala, Erzen Shkololli, Elena Sorokina, Paolo Thorsen-Nagel, Quinn Latimer, Katerina Tselou, Andrea Linnenkohl, Ayse Gulec, and educators and public program Paul B. Preciado, Sepake Angiama, Arnisa Zeqo and Clare Butcher.